Lauren k collier, phd
Coaching for what?
Career Transition
Presenting concern: Successful, but stagnating career. Traditional searches not getting results.
Learning: Ability to inhabit and articulate skills and values with confidence. Focus on purposeful leadership, clear communication and feedback, and productive conflict.
Current reality: New job opportunities created FOR the client: promotion, broader responsibilities, and a growing team.
Social Connection
Presenting concern: Moved to a new location, growing a small business with small children—lonely and unable to make room for self.
Learning: Confidence! Ability to assert and hold space for self. Identify and ask for personal needs to be met.
Current reality: New friends. Social connections paying business dividends. Putting self on the map (maybe not first, but not dead last!)
Phase of Life Change
Presenting concern: Preparing for an empty nest. Searching for purpose and direction.
Learning: Define self for self (not as a mother/wife/role). Set boundaries with (near)adult children and allow them to make decisions and mistakes. Explore personal identity.
Current reality: Reinvestment in social connections and burgeoning next-act career.
coaching Approach
Listening
As your coach, Lauren begins with deep, intentional listening. Understanding your unique experiences, challenges, and aspirations is the foundation of a transformative coaching relationship. By creating a space of trust and curiosity, Lauren ensures that every conversation is centered on your needs and goals.
Insight and Action
Lauren structures coaching sessions to promote both insight and action. If you are frustrated, languishing, or experiencing difficulties with relationships that do not rise to the level of therapy, coaching offers practical forward-oriented support. Through reflective activities, strategic questioning, and focused investigations, you'll explore new ways of thinking and identify and practice behaviors more in line with who you want to be and where you want to go.
Purposeful Change
Having navigated her own mid-career transition, Lauren understands the complexities high achievers grapple with as they question their current path or feel uncertain about where to start. As a guide and strategist, Lauren partners with you to move from uncertainty to action. Lauren will stand alongside you, providing the tools, perspective, and support you need to shape what comes next.
Guided Process
Change is a journey. Lauren invites you to jump off the treadmill and explore! She would love to support you as a dedicated partner committed to helping you navigate that journey with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
sounding board. confidant. guide.
Working with Lauren was transformative. We connected during a period when I felt the need for a professional transition. Through her deliberate and thoughtful coaching process, she helped me not only identify the type of work I wanted to pursue but also uncover the intrinsic qualities of work that bring me true fulfillment. This clarity provided a powerful framework for evaluating opportunities, understanding where I can add the most value, and intentionally leaning into work that aligns with my purpose. Lauren’s guidance was invaluable, and I highly recommend her to anyone seeking meaningful professional growth.
Troy Grant
Vice Chancellor for Strategic Enrollment Management, Tennessee Board of Regents